Stamford High School (Stamford, Connecticut)

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Stamford High School
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Stamford High School (Stamford, Connecticut)
55 Strawberry Hill Avenue

Stamford
,
Connecticut
06902

United States
Coordinates 41°03′43″N73°31′55″W / 41.062°N 73.532°W / 41.062; -73.532
Information
Type Public
Established1873(151 years ago) (1873)
CEEB code 070750
PrincipalMatthew Forker
Teaching staff124.10 (FTE) [1]
Enrollment1,743 (2018–19) [1]
Student to teacher ratio14.05 [1]
Color(s)Orange and black
  
MascotBlack Knight
Website www.stamfordhigh.org

Stamford High School is a high school, founded in 1873, in Stamford, Connecticut. [2] It is one of three public high schools in the Stamford Public Schools district, along with Westhill High School and Academy of Information Technology and Engineering (AITE).

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History

Postcard from about 1910 of the school building on Forest Street PostcardStamfordHighSchool1910.jpg
Postcard from about 1910 of the school building on Forest Street

In 1878 the Stamford Town Committee decided to create a high school for the growing community after deciding there was the lack of sufficient secondary education. They created Stamford High School the following year in a single rented room. Students attending SHS starting in 1874 had one teacher who taught reading, spelling, arithmetic, grammar, history, and philosophy. Drawing, Latin, Greek, physical geography, and geometry were added to the curriculum in 1876. [2]

In 1881 four young women comprised the first graduating class. By 1886 increasing enrollment forced a move into a new four-room building on the site of the former Franklin Elementary School. Ten years later, in 1896, a new high school building was completed on Forest Street. To attend, students were required to pass entrance examinations in five subjects, and out of 40 applicants, only 15 were accepted. SHS gradually relaxed its requirements, and by 1905, entrance examinations were eliminated. The multiplying number of students at SHS once again made a move necessary. [2]

The school moved from the site of the since-demolished Burdick Junior High School to its present location on Strawberry Hill Avenue in 1928. SHS now consists of three buildings which house over 100 regular classrooms along with special rooms for science labs, computer labs and shops for woodworking and automobile-repair classes. [2]

With the start of the new school year in September 2006, a $21 million addition to the building was opened after 18 months of construction. The 62,000-square-foot (5,800 m2) addition has 22 classrooms, five science labs, a computer lab, a multi-purpose room, a gymnasium and locker rooms. The addition also features wireless computer access and a drop-off area for entering students near Strawberry Hill Avenue. [3]

The new addition was part of $59 million in upgrades for the school begun in 1997, including replacing four boilers, new roofs and expanding the school cafeteria by 3,000 square feet (280 m2). Increasing enrollment in the city school system spurred the upgrades, and Westhill High School also received them. [3]

Sports

Stamford High School offers 24 varsity sports. [4] These include football, boys' and girls' soccer, boys' and girls' cross country, cheerleading, volleyball, girls' swimming, and field hockey in the fall; [5] boys' and girls' basketball, ice hockey, wrestling, boys' and girls' indoor track, cheerleading, and boys' swimming in the winter; [6] and baseball, softball, boys' and girls' tennis, boys' and girls' track, boys' and girls' lacrosse, and golf in the spring. [7]

Traditions

Each year on December 7, a 9-by-17-foot American flag that flew over the USS Arizona Memorial is to be flown from the flagpole in front of the school as part of a memorial ceremony for Pearl Harbor Day. Everett Hyland, an alumnus of the school who was wounded in the attack, donated the flag in 2007 on condition that it be raised each year on that date. At the first ceremony, in 2007, a small group of veterans attended, some of them speaking to the school's students about the event. "It's one thing to read a book that 2,400 people died," Doug MacLehose, head of the school's history department, told a newspaper reporter. "Talking to someone who was there or can remember is very powerful." [8]

Notable people

Alumni

Teachers

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 "Stamford High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "School History". Stamford High School. Retrieved 2010-04-03.
  3. 1 2 Gosier, Chris, "New day at Stamford High: School celebrates $21 million addition", The Advocate of Stamford, September 27, 2006, page A13
  4. ↑ Stamford High School – Athletics Information Archived 2010-03-25 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ Stamford High School – Athletics – Fall Sports Archived 2010-07-15 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ Stamford High School – Athletics – Winter Sports
  7. ↑ Stamford High School – Athletics – Spring Sports
  8. ↑ Morganteen, Jeff, "Sharing their sacrifice: USS Arizona flag flies above Stamford High", article, The Advocate of Stamford, Connecticut, December 8, 2007, pp 1, A4, Norwalk edition
  9. ↑ "Craig Bingham bio". databaseFootball. Archived from the original on 22 November 2011. Retrieved 19 February 2010.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Stamford High School Web site, Web page titled "Stamford High School Wall of Fame". Retrieved October 11, 2006.
  11. ↑ Altamont Enterprise and Albany County Post, Friday, February 13, 1970, p. 1, "Glittering Stars to Appear on Telethon," Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine ; A&E "Bob Crane Biography" ;"TV Radio Mirror," October 1967, pp. 33, 76-79.; Stamford High School; Stamford Historical Society, Stamford, CT.
  12. ↑ "Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter graduated Stamford High".
  13. ↑ Ingle, Dwight (1975). Edward C. Kendall, 1886-1972 (PDF). National Academy of Sciences. p. 249.
  14. ↑ Connecticut Post, Friday, June 10, 2011, "Class clown: Comedian Dan Levy is enjoying Hollywood success," By Scott Gargan
  15. ↑ Meyers, Joe (January 21, 2015). "Stamford Native Starring in Book of Mormon". Connecticut Post .
  16. ↑ Connecticut Post: "We were children. I wasn’t the only victim" By Amanda Cuda March 5, 2016

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